[pdftex] otf fonts in pdftex

[Ulrich Dirr]

Maybe because pdftex can only handle type-1 and truetype fonts.
If you use 'AGaramondPro-Regular.otf' you probably own the Adobe version
of Garamond in OpenType format which uses PostScript/type-1 curves and
is therefore not type-1 nor truetype. This is also the reason why some
name their OpenType fonts .ttf and some .otf. 

Best regards,
Ulrich Dirr

Diederik van Arkel wrote:
> On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 02:43 PM, Thomas Esser wrote:
> 
>>> DvA> zzz8 AGaramondPro-Regular <AGaramondPro-Regular.otf ...
>>> DvA> kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600
>>> --dpi 600
>>> DvA> AGaramondPro-Regular
>> 
>> To me, this looks like you are using the font AGaramondPro-Regular
>> from within pdftex. According the the line in your map file, the
>> name should be zzz8 for pdftex.
> 
> Nope, my test file looks like this:
> 
> %&Plain
> 
> \font\testfont=zzz8
> 
> \testfont
> The lazy cat jumped over the quick brown fox.
> The lazy cat jumped over the quick brown fox.
> The lazy cat jumped over the quick brown fox.
> \bye
> 
> And I have installed
> 
> zzz8.vf
> zzzh.tfm
> AGaramondPro-Regular.tfm
> 
> So I believe I have everything set up correctly... Checking further it
> seems that
> kpathsea can't find the .otf file?!
> 
> Does anybody have a clue for me?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Diederik van Arkel
> 
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Ulrich Dirr